德行与成就:伊索克拉底“塞浦路斯演说”中的道德教育

Virtue and Achievement:Moral Education in Isocrates’“Orations on Cyprus”

“塞浦路斯演说”是伊索克拉底在公元前370年左右以塞浦路斯普通人、王子和君主为劝说对象的四篇美文,是伊索克拉底思想成熟时期的作品。道德教育是这些文本的共同主题。通过这些文本,伊索克拉底阐述了关于公民道德、君主道德和臣民道德的观念,论证了德行、希腊特性与成就的关系,在展开道德劝说的同时实践了格言、书信、训诫和颂辞的话语形式。

The“orations on Cyprus”are four essays written by Isocrates who persuaded ordinary people,the prince and the monarchs of Cyprus around 370 BC,which are works of Isocrates’mature period.Moral education is the common theme of these texts.In these texts,Isocrates expounded the concepts of civic morality,monarch morality and morality of subjects,demonstrated the relationship between virtue,Greek characteristics and achievement,and practiced the discourse forms of maxim,letter,admonition,and eulogy while using moral persuasion.